VI. Read the
passage
below, and CIRCLE the best answer
(A,
B, C or D) to each numbered
blank.
(1.0
pt.)
Fossil fuels are the
cause of
many
problems.
They create terrible
pollution
which
(1)
_
global
warming. Many wars are fought to control
oil and
gas
fields. Fossil fuels are also nonrenewable
resources.
They
will
be exhausted
(2)
_
day. Societies around the world suffer when fuel
shortages
occur,
Can solar
power
completely replace fossil
fuels?
Solar
power
is
clean, safe, and
inexpensive. But
the idea of replacing fossil fuels with solar
power
alone
is
totally
unrealistic. Current
solar cell technology
is
not advanced
enough, Solar cells are
not
dependable.
They are useless in cloudy and rainy weather
as
well
as at
night.
(3)
_,
they take
up too much
space,
Then they fail
to
produce
sufficient
amounts of
power.
The
soft energy
path
is
a
good
replacement to
fossil fuel
reliance.
The
soft energy
path
is
an energy
conservation
plan.
It is
an
(4)
_
to
the hard energy
path.
Hard energy is defined as harmful and
nonrenewable. Fossil fuels and nuclear
power
are included. On the other hand, soft energy is defined
as renewable and environmentally safe energy.
Solar
and
wind
power
are soft energy.
Biofuel
and
geothermal
energy are also included.
There are many
proponents
of the soft
energy
path.
They believe the solution lies in new
energy
production
methods. The first step is
to
practice
careful conservation in using hard energy
technologies.
Then, many new
soft energy sources will
be
(5)
_
into use as soft
energy technology
improves.
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VII. Read the
passage,
and CIRCLE the best answer
to each
of the
questions.
(1.0
pt.)
OUTTO
TUNCH
Birds do it. Cats do it, And Spaniards
most
especially do
it
-
every day, in broad daylight. They
nap.
Grown adults
-
executives, teachers,
civil servants, wink off in
the
middle
of the workday.
From 1
or 2 otlock to 4:30 or so
every
afternoon, Spain stops the world for a stroll home, a leisurely meal,
and a few zt, Common Market technocrats have
informed
the
Spanish
that this is
not
the way things
will
get
done in a unified Europe.
At a time when
productivity
is the world's
largest
religion, the siesta tradition lives on. In Spain,
work operates under the command of life, instead of the other way around. No task is
so crucial that
it
cannot
wait
a couple of hours while
you
attend to more
important
matters like eating, relaxing, or
catching up on sleep. When
the
midday
break
hits, offices empty and streets clear.
Befuddled foreigners
quickly
learn that they have
entered a
new
circadian order.
"At Rrst, I
kept looking for things to do in the afternoon, and I
just
couldn't
believe that
nothing
was open," recalls Pier Roberts, an
Oakland
writer who lived in
Spain
for
several
years.
"I walked
the
streets of Madrid looking for
somewhere to
go.
It was a thousand degrees
outside,
you
could see
the
heat waves, and it
was
like
a
ghost
town."
Taking
a
long
break in the middle of the day is not only healthier
than the conventional
lunch;
it's
apparently more natural.
Sleep researchers have found that
the
Spanish
biorhythm
may
be tuned
more
closely to
our biological clocks. Studies suggest that humans are "biphasic"
creatures, requiring days
broken up by two
periods
of sleep
instead of
one
"monophasic" shift. The
drowsiness
you
feel
after
lunch
comes not from
the
food
but from the time of the day,
"All
animals,
including humans, have a
biological
rhythm,"
explains Claudio Stampi,
director of the
Chrono Biology
Research Institute
in Newton, Massachusetts. "One is a
Z4-hour rhythm
-
we
get
tired
by the end of
the day and
go
to
sleep
-
and there
is
a secondary
peak
of sleepiness and a
decrease in
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